Christa Pike left the hospital and returned to Tennessee prison after failed lethal injection
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Summary
Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate, survived an attempted execution by lethal injection on September 30. After receiving emergency medical care at a hospital, she returned to prison and continues to get medical treatment there.Key Facts
- Christa Pike was given two doses of the drug pentobarbital during the execution attempt.
- The execution failed because she was still breathing after the drugs were administered.
- Emergency responders took her to a hospital where doctors initially thought she might be brain dead.
- Pike recovered enough to wake up and speak, surprising her doctors and attorneys.
- She was sent back to Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Tennessee, where she had been staying.
- Governor Bill Lee ordered an independent review to understand why the execution did not work.
- Another scheduled execution in the state was postponed during this investigation.
- Pike was sentenced to death for a murder committed in 1995 involving a 19-year-old victim.
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